Randall apologizes in the preface for the lengthy gestation of Riotous Assemblies, but the time he took has paid off in meticulous scholarship and thorough synthesis of what was going on amongst the common folk engaged in riot over the course of the century.

Best of all are Moore's trademark portentous juxtapositions: In one key scene two women get it on at the riotous premier of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring; later a super-orgy is intercut with the shooting of Archduke Ferdinand.

The baroque era witnessed a flowering of the tilemaker's art, with vivid colours and wide ranging subject matter--religious scenes, plants, animals, people and landscapes--but the riotous polychromy of these was gradually overtaken by the more sober blue and white tiles that currently adorn so many Portuguese churches and public buildings.

Originally published as Big Class, Little Class, it is a clever little book which draws on popular fairy tales, mixes them up in a big witch-like cauldron and spews it out in a chaotic, riotous story that will have plenty of appeal for chaotic, riotous five to seven-year-olds.

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